Vat are you, Komrade Qvestions?

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Moscow faces a deadline of midnight tonight to explain why a Russian-made nerve agent was used in the poisoning of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.

The PM said it was "highly likely" Russia was responsible for the attack in Salisbury, Wiltshire, last Sunday.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said it appeared the "really egregious act... clearly came from Russia" and there should be "serious consequences".

Moscow called the claims "unfounded".

Former double agent Mr Skripal, 66, and his daughter, Yulia, 33, were found slumped on a bench in Salisbury city centre. They remain in a critical but stable condition in hospital.

Det Sgt Nick Bailey, who fell ill attending to the pair, remains seriously ill, but has been talking to his family.

Mrs May told the Commons on Monday that the poison used in the attack was Novichok - a military-grade nerve agent developed by Russia.

"Either this was a direct action by the Russian state against our country, or the Russian government lost control of its potentially catastrophically damaging nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of others," she said.

Mrs May said the Foreign Office had summoned Russia's ambassador to "explain which of these two possibilities it is".

She warned that if there was no "credible response" by the end of Tuesday, the UK would conclude there has been an "unlawful use of force" by Moscow.

She said the UK must "stand ready to take much more extensive measures, unlike Snorlax's underwhelming " against Russia than it had previously.

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This has been is the news for a bit but now UK is actually threatening to retaliate.

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EDF is my hugbox

“The fact that the… UK facility for identifying those agents was able to identify this very quickly would indicate that they know exactly what this nerve agent is, which means that they have the chemical formula for it too. So, who knows where it came from?

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Lawlman

Russia did this because these double agents exposed the Russian government and certain elements of the FSB of being corrupt and working with the Russian mob lmao

The fact that they're going after them like this is blatant proof that Russia is a mafia state

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My dear Kurisu... America's security turncoats were also heroic. And persecuted. Any group that tolerates traitors isn't long for this world. If he expected not to be killed then he was an idiot. I don't need to know what he did or didn't do. All I need to know is that the last traitor the American government got its hands on was turned into a woman. A form of sadism rarely seen in history. One that I can respect, BTW. The Russians are too old fashioned.

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EDF Hero

The experts, she said, would not just have relied on the fact Russia was the country which developed Novichok.

“There are ways to detect and be much more sure about where it came from,” Dr Lewis, who served on the 2004-6 WMD Commission chaired by Dr Hans Blix. “There are very high resolution analysis techniques that can track down trace elements, certain types of chemicals in the particular region where it has been made.”

“Russia knows there are techniques to pinpoint where something came from,” Dr Lewis added. “Whoever did this would know this was traceable back to Russia. So why use such an obvious thing, leaving such an obvious trace?”